Charles-Henri Petersen, born Carl Heinrich Petersen (1792-1859), was a German paysagist architect from Altenburg, Saxe. Around 1820, he moved to Belgium,[1] where many of his works still exist. The importance of his interventions in parks and gardens, at the time of the nascent Belgium, made him a defender of "English-style" gardens and a pioneer in the design of monumental greenhouses with a European reputation, starting with the one built in the Parc de Bierbais (1828), where Petersen lived until his death on December 2, 1859.[2]
Works
edit- The park around the château de Bierbais, including the ancient monumental greenhouses, nowadays known as Les Orangeries de Bierbais, 1828 (pour C.J.G. de Man de Lennick)[3]
- Botanical Garden of Brussels, opened in 1829 (reworked bur Jean-Baptiste Meeus-Wouters)
- Hof ter Mick at Brasschaat, 1830
- The park around the château de Leut, 1830 (in English style, only partially done)
- Park of the Domaine de Mariemont, 1832
- The park around the château de Merode in Westerlo, 1834 (plans executed in 1870)
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- ^ Nathalie De Harlez De Deulin, « Les jardins du château de Freÿr. Etude historique et documentaire », in Freÿr-sur-Meuse. Un patrimoine exceptionnel en province de Namur, éd. Jacques Toussaint, 2013, p. 676. ISBN 9782875020420
- ^ Archive publique de la province de Brabant, Arrondissement de Nivelles
- ^ Service public de Wallonie (2010). Court-Saint-Étienne, Mont-Saint-Guibert et Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve. Patrimoine architectural et territoires de Wallonie. Vol. 16. Catherine Dhem et Geneviève Rulens. p. 116. ISBN 9782804700652.
- (nl) Xavier Duquenne, « Drie Duitse tuinarchitecten (Charles-Henri Petersen 1792-1859, Louis Fuchs 1818-1904, Édouard Keilig 1827-1895) », in Historische woonsteden & tuinen, 2008, No. 1, pp. 19–22.